tkinter.tix — Extension widgets for Tk¶Source code: Lib/tkinter/tix.py
Deprecated since version 3.6: This Tk extension is unmaintained and should not be used in new code. Use
tkinter.ttk instead.
The tkinter.tix (Tk Interface Extension) module provides an additional
rich set of widgets. Although the standard Tk library has many useful widgets,
they are far from complete. The tkinter.tix library provides most of the
commonly needed widgets that are missing from standard Tk: HList,
ComboBox, Control (a.k.a. SpinBox) and an assortment of
scrollable widgets.
tkinter.tix also includes many more widgets that are generally useful in
a wide range of applications: NoteBook, FileEntry,
PanedWindow, etc; there are more than 40 of them.
With all these new widgets, you can introduce new interaction techniques into applications, creating more useful and more intuitive user interfaces. You can design your application by choosing the most appropriate widgets to match the special needs of your application and users.
See also
The home page for Tix. This includes links to additional documentation
and downloads.
On-line version of the man pages and reference material.
On-line version of the programmer’s reference material.
Tix applications for development of Tix and Tkinter programs. Tide applications work under Tk or Tkinter, and include TixInspect, an inspector to remotely modify and debug Tix/Tk/Tkinter applications.
tkinter.tix.Tk(screenName=None, baseName=None, className='Tix')¶Toplevel widget of Tix which represents mostly the main window of an application. It has an associated Tcl interpreter.
Classes in the tkinter.tix module subclasses the classes in the
tkinter. The former imports the latter, so to use tkinter.tix
with Tkinter, all you need to do is to import one module. In general, you
can just import tkinter.tix, and replace the toplevel call to
tkinter.Tk with tix.Tk:
from tkinter import tix
from tkinter.constants import *
root = tix.Tk()
To use tkinter.tix, you must have the Tix widgets installed, usually
alongside your installation of the Tk widgets. To test your installation, try
the following:
from tkinter import tix
root = tix.Tk()
root.tk.eval('package require Tix')
Tix
introduces over 40 widget classes to the tkinter repertoire.
tkinter.tix.Balloon¶A Balloon that pops up over a widget to provide help. When the user moves the cursor inside a widget to which a Balloon widget has been bound, a small pop-up window with a descriptive message will be shown on the screen.
tkinter.tix.ButtonBox¶The ButtonBox
widget creates a box of buttons, such as is commonly used for Ok Cancel.
tkinter.tix.ComboBox¶The ComboBox widget is similar to the combo box control in MS Windows. The user can select a choice by either typing in the entry subwidget or selecting from the listbox subwidget.
tkinter.tix.Control¶The Control
widget is also known as the SpinBox widget. The user can adjust the
value by pressing the two arrow buttons or by entering the value directly into
the entry. The new value will be checked against the user-defined upper and
lower limits.
tkinter.tix.LabelEntry¶The LabelEntry widget packages an entry widget and a label into one mega widget. It can be used to simplify the creation of “entry-form” type of interface.
tkinter.tix.LabelFrame¶The LabelFrame
widget packages a frame widget and a label into one mega widget. To create
widgets inside a LabelFrame widget, one creates the new widgets relative to the
frame subwidget and manage them inside the frame subwidget.
tkinter.tix.Meter¶The Meter widget can be used to show the progress of a background job which may take a long time to execute.
tkinter.tix.OptionMenu¶The OptionMenu creates a menu button of options.
tkinter.tix.PopupMenu¶The PopupMenu
widget can be used as a replacement of the tk_popup command. The advantage
of the Tix PopupMenu widget is it requires less application code
to manipulate.
tkinter.tix.Select¶The Select widget is a container of button subwidgets. It can be used to provide radio-box or check-box style of selection options for the user.
tkinter.tix.StdButtonBox¶The StdButtonBox widget is a group of standard buttons for Motif-like dialog boxes.
tkinter.tix.DirList¶The DirList widget displays a list view of a directory, its previous directories and its sub-directories. The user can choose one of the directories displayed in the list or change to another directory.
tkinter.tix.DirTree¶The DirTree widget displays a tree view of a directory, its previous directories and its sub-directories. The user can choose one of the directories displayed in the list or change to another directory.
tkinter.tix.DirSelectDialog¶The DirSelectDialog widget presents the directories in the file system in a dialog window. The user can use this dialog window to navigate through the file system to select the desired directory.
tkinter.tix.DirSelectBox¶The DirSelectBox is similar to the standard Motif(TM)
directory-selection box. It is generally used for the user to choose a
directory. DirSelectBox stores the directories mostly recently selected into
a ComboBox widget so that they can be quickly selected again.
tkinter.tix.ExFileSelectBox¶The ExFileSelectBox
widget is usually embedded in a tixExFileSelectDialog widget. It provides a
convenient method for the user to select files. The style of the
ExFileSelectBox widget is very similar to the standard file dialog on
MS Windows 3.1.
tkinter.tix.FileSelectBox¶The FileSelectBox
is similar to the standard Motif(TM) file-selection box. It is generally used
for the user to choose a file. FileSelectBox stores the files mostly recently
selected into a ComboBox widget so that they can be quickly selected
again.
tkinter.tix.HList¶The HList widget can be used to display any data that have a hierarchical structure, for example, file system directory trees. The list entries are indented and connected by branch lines according to their places in the hierarchy.
tkinter.tix.TList¶The TList widget
can be used to display data in a tabular format. The list entries of a
TList widget are similar to the entries in the Tk listbox widget. The
main differences are (1) the TList widget can display the list entries
in a two dimensional format and (2) you can use graphical images as well as
multiple colors and fonts for the list entries.
tkinter.tix.PanedWindow¶The PanedWindow widget allows the user to interactively manipulate the sizes of several panes. The panes can be arranged either vertically or horizontally. The user changes the sizes of the panes by dragging the resize handle between two panes.
tkinter.tix.ListNoteBook¶The ListNoteBook
widget is very similar to the TixNoteBook widget: it can be used to
display many windows in a limited space using a notebook metaphor. The notebook
is divided into a stack of pages (windows). At one time only one of these pages
can be shown. The user can navigate through these pages by choosing the name of
the desired page in the hlist subwidget.
tkinter.tix.NoteBook¶The NoteBook widget can be used to display many windows in a limited space using a notebook metaphor. The notebook is divided into a stack of pages. At one time only one of these pages can be shown. The user can navigate through these pages by choosing the visual “tabs” at the top of the NoteBook widget.
The tkinter.tix module adds:
pixmap
capabilities to all tkinter.tix and tkinter widgets to create
color images from XPM files.
Compound image
types can be used to create images that consists of multiple horizontal lines;
each line is composed of a series of items (texts, bitmaps, images or spaces)
arranged from left to right. For example, a compound image can be used to
display a bitmap and a text string simultaneously in a Tk Button
widget.
In addition, tkinter.tix augments tkinter by providing:
tkinter.tix.tixCommand¶The tix commands provide
access to miscellaneous elements of Tix’s internal state and the
Tix application context. Most of the information manipulated by these
methods pertains to the application as a whole, or to a screen or display,
rather than to a particular window.
To view the current settings, the common usage is:
from tkinter import tix
root = tix.Tk()
print(root.tix_configure())
tixCommand.tix_configure(cnf=None, **kw)¶Query or modify the configuration options of the Tix application context. If no option is specified, returns a dictionary all of the available options. If option is specified with no value, then the method returns a list describing the one named option (this list will be identical to the corresponding sublist of the value returned if no option is specified). If one or more option-value pairs are specified, then the method modifies the given option(s) to have the given value(s); in this case the method returns an empty string. Option may be any of the configuration options.
tixCommand.tix_cget(option)¶Returns the current value of the configuration option given by option. Option may be any of the configuration options.
tixCommand.tix_getbitmap(name)¶Locates a bitmap file of the name name.xpm or name in one of the bitmap
directories (see the tix_addbitmapdir() method). By using
tix_getbitmap(), you can avoid hard coding the pathnames of the bitmap
files in your application. When successful, it returns the complete pathname of
the bitmap file, prefixed with the character @. The returned value can be
used to configure the bitmap option of the Tk and Tix widgets.
tixCommand.tix_addbitmapdir(directory)¶Tix maintains a list of directories under which the tix_getimage() and
tix_getbitmap() methods will search for image files. The standard bitmap
directory is $TIX_LIBRARY/bitmaps. The tix_addbitmapdir() method
adds directory into this list. By using this method, the image files of an
applications can also be located using the tix_getimage() or
tix_getbitmap() method.
tixCommand.tix_filedialog([dlgclass])¶Returns the file selection dialog that may be shared among different calls from
this application. This method will create a file selection dialog widget when
it is called the first time. This dialog will be returned by all subsequent
calls to tix_filedialog(). An optional dlgclass parameter can be passed
as a string to specified what type of file selection dialog widget is desired.
Possible options are tix, FileSelectDialog or tixExFileSelectDialog.
tixCommand.tix_getimage(self, name)¶Locates an image file of the name name.xpm, name.xbm or
name.ppm in one of the bitmap directories (see the
tix_addbitmapdir() method above). If more than one file with the same name
(but different extensions) exist, then the image type is chosen according to the
depth of the X display: xbm images are chosen on monochrome displays and color
images are chosen on color displays. By using tix_getimage(), you can
avoid hard coding the pathnames of the image files in your application. When
successful, this method returns the name of the newly created image, which can
be used to configure the image option of the Tk and Tix widgets.
tixCommand.tix_option_get(name)¶Gets the options maintained by the Tix scheme mechanism.
tixCommand.tix_resetoptions(newScheme, newFontSet[, newScmPrio])¶Resets the scheme and fontset of the Tix application to newScheme and newFontSet, respectively. This affects only those widgets created after this call. Therefore, it is best to call the resetoptions method before the creation of any widgets in a Tix application.
The optional parameter newScmPrio can be given to reset the priority level of the Tk options set by the Tix schemes.
Because of the way Tk handles the X option database, after Tix has been has
imported and inited, it is not possible to reset the color schemes and font sets
using the tix_config() method. Instead, the tix_resetoptions()
method must be used.